What does it cost to level Cooking right now?

235g in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 85 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 203g.

Where do these numbers come from?

The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 17:26 UTC.

Why does the route change when I reload?

Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

Profession leveling · Shadowlands Cooking · KR · prices as of 17:26 UTC

Cooking leveling 1 → 75 · Shadowlands Cooking

235g in reagents over about 85 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 203g.

Start skill

Trainer recipes only

Recipe names carry the colour the profession window gives them: orange is a point every craft, yellow is three in four, green is one in four.

Before the first craft — buy it all at once

One trip to the auction house. Vendor lines are cheaper from the profession vendor than from the board.

ReagentNeedEachTotal

Raw Seraphic Wing×9293

×9285

Silvergill Pike×461

×4646

Rich Grazer Milk×12329

×12335

Tenebrous Ribs×13217

×13222

Lusterwheat Flour×12314

×12317

Lost Sole×4628

×4612

Phantasmal Haunch×5418

×549

Aethereal Meat×5411

×545

Total235

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 35

Orange→Green

Butterscotch Marinated Ribs

trainer

About 44 crafts.22

per skill point66

Tenebrous Ribs×132

Step 2 · Skill 35 → 52

Orange→Yellow

Banana Beef Pudding

trainer

About 18 crafts.38

per skill point2

Step 3 · Skill 52 → 75

Orange

Seraph Tenders

trainer

About 23 crafts.174

per skill point7

Skill 75 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Butterscotch Marinated Ribs13212

13216

Seraph Tenders6912

698

Banana Beef Pudding5412

546

Capped at what the market takes in 3 days, so a route never pretends to sell hundreds at once.

Back in your pocket203

What's worth crafting with Cooking right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Cooking right now?: 235g in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 85 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 203g.
Where do these numbers come from?: The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 17:26 UTC.
Why does the route change when I reload?: Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

A first craft pays Knowledge, not skill, so it is shown as a badge and left out of the craft count. Vendor reagents are priced at the lower of the vendor and the auction house.